Thursday, September 4, 2014

Unpatriotic Assholes

Even now, with Russia invading Ukraine and ISIS beheading American journalists, the Republicans can't force themselves to present a united American front if it means standing with Barack Obama. While the president bombs and send air strikes and extends sanctions and meets with foreign leaders and NATO to try to devise the best possible strategy for coping with the increasingly violent goings on in Europe and the Middle East, Republican leaders, and I use that term very loosely, sit in their districts and twiddle their thumbs....unless, of course, they are on the Sunday shows complaining about what Obama is doing without offering any plausible ideas of their own.

Rand Paul now thinks (after much willy-wawing on this issue) that we must destroy ISIS: “If I were President, I would call a joint session of Congress, I would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a
threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to
destroy ISIS militarily.”

So far as I know, there is nothing to prevent the leadership of Congress from getting together and calling themselves into a joint (or extra) session if that's what they want to do. But do you sense them chaffing at the bit to take a vote on giving the President authorization to "destroy ISIS militarily"?

No, what they really want is for Obama to go ahead and do it, then they can scream that he made the decision extra-constitutionally and crucify him if it doesn't work out perfectly (which, of course, it wouldn't because war never does.)

John McCain and Lindsay Graham wrote an op-ed in the New York Times. Well, they would, wouldn't they? They've never not put their 2 cents (and that's about what their opinions are worth) in on any issue. They want to go to war in both Syria and Iraq but those are easy decisions to make when they are just words in a newspaper. And it's safe for them to say whatever they want because no one ever holds them accountable for all the wrong predictions they've made in the past. Has John McCain really thought out that he'd be going against some of the old buds he urged the president to arm in the not-too-distant past. Old buds like some now in ISIS.....like these guys?

Not to worry. I'm sure he'll remain the pet of the Sunday talk shows.

Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Leader, recently said - “I am in support of going in and not sitting back, but creating a strategy of where we go, And if the president won’t act, I think we have to take some
action to move forward.”

Good, Kevin, because I think Obama would love for you to do just that and give him some cover, just the way our laws state that it should work. You know, the Executive and Legislative branches being a partnership and all when matters of American security are involved.

Sen. Ted Cruz rallied the conservative faithful at the Defending the American Dream Summit
in Dallas on Saturday, saying that the U.S. should bomb the Islamic
State (ISIS) "back to the Stone Age" for beheading American journalist
James Foley.

Come back to Washington, Ted, and put your money where your mouth is.

By the way, Ted also said at this same summit - "The Russian bear is encountering the Obama kitty cat. The
reason Putin feels no fear to march into his neighbors, the reason our
allies up and down Europe are terrified of what happens next, is because
our president is leading from behind."

He illustrated Putin's influence another way at the start of his speech:
"Back in Washington, there's a diet that is now very, very popular.
It's called 'The Obama Diet.' It works very, very well. You simply let
Putin eat your lunch every day."

You know when Republicans hear this kind of stuff, they love it. They roll in the floor laughing. They can't help letting their admiration of Putin show. "Sigh, if only we had such a manly president."

Way to stand with your president and your country, unpatriotic assholes. You make me sick.